packages/cli: added version helper

packages/cli/src/commands/create-app/createApp.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { resolve as resolvePath } from 'path';
 import os from 'os';
 import { Task, templatingTask } from 'helpers/tasks';
 import { paths } from 'helpers/paths';
+import { version } from 'helpers/version';
 const exec = promisify(execCb);
 
 async function checkExists(rootDir: string, name: string) {
@@ -108,7 +109,6 @@ export default async () => {
   const templateDir = paths.resolveOwn('templates/default-app');
   const tempDir = resolvePath(os.tmpdir(), answers.name);
   const appDir = resolvePath(paths.targetDir, answers.name);
-  const version = require(paths.resolveOwn('package.json')).version;
 
   Task.log();
   Task.log('Creating the app...');

packages/cli/src/commands/create-plugin/createPlugin.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import {
   getCodeownersFilePath,
 } from './lib/codeowners';
 import { paths } from 'helpers/paths';
+import { version } from 'helpers/version';
 import { Task, templatingTask } from 'helpers/tasks';
 const exec = promisify(execCb);
 
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ const addExportStatement = async (
 export async function addPluginDependencyToApp(
   rootDir: string,
   pluginName: string,
-  version: string,
+  versionStr: string,
 ) {
   const pluginPackage = `@backstage/plugin-${pluginName}`;
   const packageFilePath = 'packages/app/package.json';
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ export async function addPluginDependencyToApp(
       );
     }
 
-    dependencies[pluginPackage] = `^${version}`;
+    dependencies[pluginPackage] = `^${versionStr}`;
     packageFileJson.dependencies = sortObjectByKeys(dependencies);
     const newContents = `${JSON.stringify(packageFileJson, null, 2)}\n`;
 
@@ -223,7 +224,6 @@ export default async () => {
   const templateDir = paths.resolveOwn('templates/default-plugin');
   const tempDir = resolvePath(os.tmpdir(), answers.id);
   const pluginDir = paths.resolveTargetRoot('plugins', answers.id);
-  const version = require(paths.resolveOwn('package.json')).version;
   const ownerIds = parseOwnerIds(answers.owner);
 
   Task.log();

packages/cli/src/helpers/version.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020 Spotify AB
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import { paths } from './paths';
+
+export function findVersion() {
+  const pkgContent = fs.readFileSync(paths.resolveOwn('package.json'), 'utf8');
+  return JSON.parse(pkgContent).version;
+}
+
+export const version = findVersion();
+export const isDev = fs.pathExistsSync(paths.resolveOwn('src'));

packages/cli/src/index.ts

@@ -16,12 +16,10 @@
 
 import program from 'commander';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
-import { exitWithError } from './helpers/errors';
-import { paths } from './helpers/paths';
+import { exitWithError } from 'helpers/errors';
+import { version } from 'helpers/version';
 
 const main = (argv: string[]) => {
-  const version = require(paths.resolveOwn('package.json')).version;
-
   program.name('backstage-cli').version(version);
 
   program